> Hello Dwight, > On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 13:27:05 -0600 GMT (03/02/2008, 02:27 +0700 GMT), > Dwight Corrin wrote:
DC>> Are you serious. Did they take a language and decide to implement DC>> a new set of spellings? > Why not? > Lincoln did that in USA (valid only for USA). "Tonight" became > "tonite". OK, that one didn't stick, but how about neighbour versus > neighbor? (Question: Will the multiple-language spellchecking also > allow AE and BE side-by-side?) > The Germans (together with the Austrians and Swiss) have changed major > grammar rules in addition to spelling a couple times in the past > years. Everybody hopes they are done changing now. Valid for all > German-speakers in the world. > And the Chinese (under Mao) even changed their characters. Well, not > all of them, but about 400. Valid only in Mainland China, so that we > now have "traditional Chinese" (valid everywhere in the world except > Mainland China) and "simplified Chinese" spellings. They use even > different encodings in computing. Can we restore the pre-1917 RUssian alphabet while we're at it? :) -- Rick Republican Priorities: ME first, party second, country - last v4.0.0.17 (ALPHA) on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 4.0.0.17 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
